Abstract [en]

A well-known problem within the software development industry is the absence of qualitative system documentation. This problem can be found within the company Multisoft Consulting. Too much time is spent by the developers when they must familiarize themselves with an existing system. As a part of the solution to this problem the company would like to generate documentation automatically. The generation should be performed by the platform Softadmin® which is used to develop all customer systems. The platform is based on C# and Microsoft’s SQL Server and contains different components, each with its own functionality. In order to find out which documentation that should be generated automatically literature has been studied and developers have been interviewed. In order to know which documentation that can be generated by Softadmin® the platform has been analyzed. The conclusion is that documentation which provides a general view of the system and demonstrates how the system is used is both desirable and possible to generate with Softadmin®. A kind of general view had already been implemented in Softadmin®. However, some desired features were not included in the general view. The priority of this study became to implement a prototype which completed the general view by including some of the desired features. The result is that it is now possible to display information about the system’s menu items, which is pages with different functionality, within the general view.